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This is an extract from my newest book called 9 Canadian Cities: Victoria to Montreal via Whitehorse and Yellowknife I found an interesting modern sculpture in the same block as the Victoria Police HQ. To me, the sculpture looks like people either stopping a column falling over or supporting the column. I wondered whether itContinue reading “Victoria”

This is an extract from my newest book called 9 Canadian Cities: Victoria to Montreal via Whitehorse and Yellowknife If you’re staying in the centre, then it’s best to take the metro out to the Olympic Park and Botanical Garden. The nearest stop to the park is Viau and Pie-IX is the nearest to theContinue reading “Montreal”

This is an extract from my newest book called 9 Canadian Cities: Victoria to Montreal via Whitehorse and Yellowknife The National Gallery of Canada has a giant spider outside, so you can’t miss it. On the other side of Sussex Drive from the gallery is the Notre Dame Cathedral Basilica. Inside the gallery, Forty-Part MotetContinue reading “Ottawa”

This is an extract from my newest book called 9 Canadian Cities: Victoria to Montreal via Whitehorse and Yellowknife Close to the Winnipeg Art Gallery is the Manitoba Legislative Building dating from 1920. The surrounding grass and gardens hold some notable sculptures including a memorial to the Ukrainian poet Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (1814-1861) by theContinue reading “Winnipeg”

This is an extract from my newest book called 9 Canadian Cities: Victoria to Montreal via Whitehorse and Yellowknife Saskatoon is on the South Saskatchewan River in the Canadian Prairies. There are leafy parks on both sides of the river which make lovely places for a stroll during the day. I walked from the RiversdaleContinue reading “Saskatoon”

This is an extract from my newest book called 9 Canadian Cities: Victoria to Montreal via Whitehorse and Yellowknife For me, Northwest Territories (NWT) is where the scale and grandeur of Canada hits home. Northwest Territories is 1 million square kilometres bigger than Germany, whose population is over eighty million. The Acasta Gneiss, the world’sContinue reading “Yellowknife”

This is an extract from my newest book called 9 Canadian Cities: Victoria to Montreal via Whitehorse and Yellowknife The Old Log Church Museum (OLCM) collects material connected with or related to the history of the Anglican church in the Yukon. That history goes back to 1861 — fully 35 years before they discovered goldContinue reading “Whitehorse”